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...such an organization cannot be called religious. The Moonies are a modern and heartless corporation. There are hundreds of millions of dollars involved in the operations of this cult. Each of the flower-vendor members can earn well over a thousand dollars a week. As well, the young members milk their parents for money all the time. Mr. Selover is correct when he writes that the Unification Church will not adopt a fortress mentality but will instead work within the system--for it is only in the American system that such an ignominious association could operate. The Moonies feed...
...system is changing that approach. To achieve peaceful coexistence between cars and people, the Dutch are rearranging conventional streets into sidewalkless Woonerven. The entrances to streets are necked-down to one lane to slow down autos; that lane is then broken up with trees, planters, play equipment, benches and flower beds. Cars are parked diagonally in small groups on alternate sides of the street, so that moving vehicles have to slalom around them. Intersections are marked by islands of greenery or with gradually raised crosswalks...
There was little doubt which peer group he valued more. To Snow, the nuclear physicists were, in fact, artists, opening the universe like a flower. Snow praises his inspired scientists for being "morally admirable" as well. After citing their "courage, truth-telling, kindness," he rather astonishingly asserts that "on the whole scientists make slightly better husbands and fathers than most of us." For Snow the agonizing irony is that these saintly men-Rutherford, "bored" by money; Bohr, "simply and genuinely kind"; Einstein, not only looking but be having like an Old Testament prophet-should end up being even indirectly responsible...
...local residents are being encouraged to take an interest in their gardens and a great many have, apart from their flower gardens, established vagetable beds and fruit trees. For these garden lovers the Horticultural Section provides trees, plants and advice. Garden competitions are organised each year...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler